At noon on August 27, Jiayi TV reported on the noon news that Wang Xinyu, director of Heung Kong Electric Group, proposed to replace its aging wiring and was vetoed by the new major shareholder, and it quickly spread in all walks of life in Xiangjiang.

On the morning of the 28th, all major newspapers reprinted the report on this matter and published their own comments on it, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the customers of Heung Kong Electric Group.

For a time, the newly owned Singapore consortium was criticized by countless Xiangjiang citizens, and some excited citizens came to protest outside the Heung Kong Electric Group. Qiu Teck Puat and others are required to agree with Wang Xinyu's opinion, serve the citizens of Xiangjiang, replace their aging lines, and be responsible for the safety of the citizens of Xiangjiang.

At the same time, under the promotion of Luo Cheng and others, MacLehose also received proposals from many parliamentarians, asking Heung Kong Electric Group to upgrade the aging lines for the safety of Hong Kong citizens.

The newspaper reporters are powerful, as long as there are signs of something, they can find out countless related problems, and even they have turned over the major accident that occurred in the Seiko Hair Factory in North Point on January 20, resulting in 11 deaths and 19 injuries, telling the danger of aging lines.

The specific cause of the fire has not yet been investigated, and the reporter did not put it on the head of the aging line this time, criticizing some shareholders of the Heung Kong Electric Light Group for not taking into account the personal interests of the people of Heung Kong, only thinking of making money, and ignoring the opinions of responsible directors, such shareholders are not qualified to control public service enterprises.

On this day, Qiu Depu, Guo Fangfeng and others seemed to have instantly become selfish capitalists who only thought about making money regardless of the lives of the citizens of Xiangjiang.

In the face of various attacks from the outside world, Qiu Depuat and the others immediately knew that they and others had to fight back, otherwise if public opinion continued, their reputation in Xiangjiang would be stinky, and it would be even more difficult for their enterprises to develop in Xiangjiang.

Khoo Teck Puat also knew the importance of the media, so they immediately arranged a press conference to conduct crisis public relations on the incident, and at the same time contacted Run Shaw and Khoo Tak Kan, hoping that their TV station would report some good news for them.

Run Run Shaw did not agree to the request of Qiu Teck Puat and others, he already gave you face without reporting on this matter, and let his TV station come out to fight against Jiayi, but I am afraid that I will think too much, and I don't want to stand opposite the Chinese family in Xiangjiang. You can not help Li Guangyu, but you will definitely not be able to help Li Guangyu's opponent.

Qiu Depuat and these people are outsiders to the Xiangjiang family, and when facing the competition between foreign families and the Xiangjiang family, the Xiangjiang Chinese family is very united. Even if you don't help, you will never hold them back.

Khoo also rejected the request of the Singapore consortium, and although Khoo and Khoo have similar names, the two are not related. This time, ATV and Jiayi have been condemning the Singapore consortium.

Qiu Depua and his colleagues then contacted several major newspapers in Xiangjiang, and the news they got was very unoptimistic, neither the Ma family of Oriental Daily, nor Jin Yong of Ming Pao, nor the Hu family of Sing Tao Daily agreed to their request.

Now these big families have deeply felt the influence of the Li Consortium in Xiangjiang, and they used to just listen to it, they didn't think how terrible the Li Consortium was, Xiangjiang is still under British rule, and it has always been the world of the British Consortium, they don't think that they and others have the care of the British Consortium, what can Li Guangyu do with them.

However, today's incident gave them a head start, and they also contacted the British-funded consortium, and the news they got made them frustrated.

Henry Keswick and others only promised that the government would not trouble themselves and others, and that the outside public opinion needed me and others to find a way, and that the government could not manage the reporting of the news media, and that Xiangjiang practiced freedom of speech.

In the face of the accusations and questions of countless people outside, Qiu Depu, Huang Zuyao and Guo Fangfeng discussed how to deal with it next.

Huang Zuyao said: "Deba, this time Li Guangyu obviously wants us to fill more funds in the Heung Kong Electric Light Group to affect the development of our other industries. And even if we agree to replace the aging wiring this time, Li Guangyu will definitely come up with another way to continue to let us fill in the funds of the Xiangjiang Electric Light Group, their Li consortium has few shares in the company, and they don't care about this investment, we can't do it. ”

Guo Fangfeng also said that he and others must not let Li Guangyu lead the way this time, otherwise it will only get worse and worse, and their investment in the Xiangjiang Electric Light Group is not equal to the Li consortium, the Li consortium only has 13.1% of the shares, and they control 70% of the shares, and their funds can not be spent with the Li consortium.

Qiu Teck Puat even regretted intervening now, originally thinking that the deterrence of the British government, coupled with the influence of the British-funded consortium in Xiangjiang over the years, could easily resist the attack of the Li consortium, but it was all unreliable.

There is a problem on my side, the government can't manage it, and the British-funded consortium can't do anything, so I didn't say this to myself at the beginning.

Qiu Deba said: "This time we still have to make a promise to the outside world, the aging line must be replaced, but we need time, we can come step by step, now deal with public opinion, on the Li consortium's side, we have to pay more attention, it is estimated that they will come up with other things at that time." ”

At half past ten in the morning, in the conference room of the Heung Kong Electric Light Group, Qiu Teck Puat and the three of them were interviewed by a number of media in Hong Kong.

Among them, the Oriental media asked: "Qiu Sheng, what do you think about the reports from the outside world, and what will Heung Kong Electric Group do next?"

"Thank you for your interest in our group, and as a public service enterprise in Hong Kong, we will also uphold the concept of serving the citizens of Hong Kong," said Khoo. Regarding the external report that we vetoed the replacement of the aging line is a serious untruth, we originally said that after we understand the situation of the group, we will make corresponding arrangements, and absolutely did not say that we will not replace the aging line. ”

A reporter from the Industrial and Commercial Daily asked: "Qiu Sheng, you have never operated this type of company before, and now you have such a company, when do you expect to understand, a month or two months, or a year and a half, and the aging line is threatening the safety of the citizens of Xiangjiang at any time, I don't know what plans you have now?"

The reporter present had an expression that I knew, and he didn't know what Qiu Depua thought, so he asked the reporter of the Industrial and Commercial Daily to ask, didn't he know who the company was, and Li Guangyu was still a shareholder in it.

Qiu Deba really didn't notice that this was a reporter from the Industrial and Commercial Daily, and he had already avoided the reporters of Xiangyu Daily and Jiayi TV when he asked people to ask questions, but he didn't expect to find a reporter from Li Guangyu's side.

"We are also very concerned about the safety of electricity for the people of Heung Jiang, and we only learned from watching a lot of news today that the power supply of some of our customers in Heung Jiang will be so unstable," said Khoo. We have already discussed this issue and will be replacing some of the aging lines one by one starting next month. ”

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